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The Christian take-over of Wellywood
Thursday, 4 December 2008, 2:54 pm | Gordon Campbell
Everyone knows that Hollywood is a den of godless, Obama –loving pinko liberals. That being so, New Zealand’s transformation, post Rings, into a minor hub of Christian movie making seems like…well, a minor miracle. In my experience, local film crews ... More >>
The Key To Escape From Thailand?
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 11:56 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the escape flights from Thailand, and on taxing people for flying long distances. More >>
What Agenda Now For TVNZ?
Monday, 1 December 2008, 10:36 am | Gordon Campbell
The recent axing of TVNZ’s current affairs programme Agenda has been only the last step in a long decline. The damage was done long ago, with the quarantining of the show to a timeslot when only politicians, their minders and the press gallery would ... More >>
Preparations (or lack thereof) for a crisis
Friday, 28 November 2008, 6:14 pm | Gordon Campbell
On paper, the new government’s reaction to the global financial crisis - namely, a $7 billion ‘stimulation package’ of government spending spread over the next two years - looks like a combination of Think Big and speed dating. However, we won’t ... More >>
Creating Jobs In The Teeth Of The Financial Crisis
Wednesday, 26 November 2008, 10:37 am | Gordon Campbell
Giving the local government portfolio to Rodney Hide creates some management challenges for John Key. Can Key really afford to let Hide loose down the privatising track in local government – which would entail the wholesale contracting out of council ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on John Key’s performance in Peru
Monday, 24 November 2008, 10:29 am | Gordon Campbell
The clip on last night’s television of George W. Bush genially patting new boy John Key on the back at the APEC gathering in Peru was not only embarrassing to watch. It was a reminder that a change of government is not just about policy settings. ... More >>
90s Cabinet Gets Key Coat of Varnish
Wednesday, 19 November 2008, 10:12 am | Gordon Campbell
The new Cabinet has been greeted with such hosannas from the mainstream media we can only assume some of those articles were really job applications, disguised as commentary. Get a grip. Has there ever been an incoming administration that hasn’t ... More >>
Key's Deals With ACT And The Maori Party
Monday, 17 November 2008, 11:05 am | Gordon Campbell
Despite sitting outside Cabinet, Rodney Hide, Roger Douglas and their ACT Party mates are positioning themselves to be the bean counters in the new government, by controlling the reviews of government spending and regulation. More >>
Gordon Campbell On The New Breed Of Conservatives
Friday, 14 November 2008, 11:18 am | Gordon Campbell
The premise of Labour’s election campaign was that John Key was either (a) a vacuum waiting to be filled by political expedience or (b) a secret hardliner masking his real intentions until he could gain power. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the new Labour leadership
Wednesday, 12 November 2008, 9:42 am | Gordon Campbell
Not unexpectedly, Phil Goff’s first press conference as Labour leader did include a mea culpa of sorts for the “disconnect’ that had occurred in Labour’s relations with the New Zealand public - although the who, how and why of this inexplicable ... More >>
Crisis – How About A Minister Outside Cabinet!
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 10:30 am | Gordon Campbell
That John Key certainly is a joker. In the face of the biggest global economic crisis in 80 years, the new government has come up with a governing structure whereby….either and probably both Rodney Hide and Peter Dunne will have ministerial responsibility ... More >>
Gordon Campbell's Election Wrap Up + Predictions
Monday, 10 November 2008, 10:12 am | Gordon Campbell
From now on, this 2008 election can serve as the poster child of MMP. In future, anyone who wants to seriously diss MMP – or hold a referendum to get rid of it – will have to grapple with Saturday’s compelling evidence for the defence. Namely, ... More >>
Campbell: NZ's Non-Election Comes To A Close
Friday, 7 November 2008, 12:37 pm | Gordon Campbell
With one day to go, this election campaign continues to be a foregone conclusion that stubbornly refuses to turn into a real contest. The narrative that the media would have preferred – tightening race, mounting drama, nail biting excitement ... More >>
Post US Elction: Gay Marriage Rent Asunder
Thursday, 6 November 2008, 10:36 am | Gordon Campbell
Hope you enjoyed Scoop’s blogging on the US elections yesterday. Sure was fun to do. In the aftermath of the victory of Barack Obama, the passing in California of Proposition 8 that bans gay marriage ( and puts current gay civil unions in limbo) ... More >>
US Election '08 - A Historical Turning Point?
Wednesday, 5 November 2008, 3:21 pm | Gordon Campbell
... what follows is Gordon's live blog stream as at 3.18pm NZT. It appears that Obama has well and truly won the US election though no formal calls have yet been made by the US TV Networks. - Scoop Editor Alastair Thompson More >>
Gordon Campbell: How To Watch A US Election
Tuesday, 4 November 2008, 3:30 pm | Gordon Campbell
The target to win the Presidency is 270 votes in the US Electoral College, and even the most zealous US patriot would probably concede that this system is an imperfect one. Essentially, it is not really a national election. Fifty-one separate elections ... More >>
Election 08: Gordon Campbell on Prisons
Monday, 3 November 2008, 2:36 pm | Gordon Campbell
Voting commonly plays out as an act of retribution, with the motivation to vote being either a desire to wreak vengeance on the incumbent, or to send a warning shot across the bow of their likely replacement. So, its hardly surprising that the law and order ... More >>
Election 08: Stealing The US Election
Friday, 31 October 2008, 2:52 pm | Gordon Campbell
Judging by the polls, the Republicans’ best chance of victory looks like it will require them to screw around with the machinery of voting. They’re very good at it. Given the near certainty of record turnouts in next week’s election, will there ... More >>
Keeping The Good Life Going For The Middle Class
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 11:32 am | Gordon Campbell
On Friday, the National Party will unveil the details of its plan to pay the mortgage and living expenses of those middle-income earners who may lose their jobs next year because of the economic recession Reportedly, the money to do it will come from the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Can McCain Make A Comeback
Monday, 27 October 2008, 4:10 pm | Gordon Campbell
Only a week to go, and have John McCain’s attempts at a comeback peaked too soon? Eight days ago, the US opinion polls began to carry a few flickering signs of a McCain resurgence - after Barack Obama had pulled clearly ahead in the wake of the second ... More >>
